At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to his shock, that he had just been banned from Twitter. …
As I leave my house on an overcast Tuesday morning to walk the dog, I’m accosted by a neighbor who cheerily calls down the street: “I hear you have an …
Jessamyn West used to describe Metafilter as a social network for non-friends, a description belied in part by the tight-knit camaraderie that emerges in an online group of only a …
In January, the CEOs of X, TikTok, Meta, Snap, and Discord testified in front of a congressional committee about child exploitation on their platforms. “Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies …
Our goal is to combine both approaches—to run a moderation service that tries to provide a baseline and to also have an open ecosystem where anyone who wants to innovate …
1. They don’t focus just on themselves. Everyone appreciates being acknowledged for something they did well and have pride in. Doing this with sincerity ensures that you will be remembered …
X has banned the account of a prominent critic after he published data that he claims exposed the site’s embrace of the far-right after Elon Musk’s takeover last year. Travis …
Small talk might seem trivial, but it can deliver big results. It can help us forge new or deeper connections with others by allowing us to discover unexpected areas of …
Yet the threat of a ban constantly looms over the app, in part because of those longstanding Chinese connections. Although the app is a separate one to the one available …
For Sander van der Linden, misinformation is personal. As a child in the Netherlands, the University of Cambridge social psychologist discovered that almost all of his mother’s family had been …